So whereas with Bit Torrent, if you finish a download and move on, you lose even the potential to share it again.
Not if you start the torrent again.
Which is where it breaks down. When I download something (a music album, for the sake of argument) it goes into my temp downloads folder. As does whatever I download from Firefox, Mirc, Trillian, or Shareaza. When I have received it and want to do something with it, I move it to a "better" spot on my hard drive. In this case it's My Music\.... Once here, Azureus no longer knows about it, and if I want to resume the torrent I need to start from scratch, or mangle the torrent import to grab it off of the correct location, which still doesn't work all the time if I need to rename any of the files.
If I had a pissload of free HD space, then I could copy it out of the temp folder instead of moving it (which for most popular things I do, but only to get to a healthy ratio) but I don't usually have the floating free space to do that.
The HD space problem with the WW cache is similar, but if I could set a constant space for it I could mitigate that. The cache could be smart and keep around the more popular bits of files, freeing me from needing the whole torrent available.
The White Water advantage (presumably) is that it keeps its own cache. So whereas with Bit Torrent, if you finish a download and move on, you lose even the potential to share it again. With White Water, as long as you're using it you're available to share older downloads.
I'm not a fan since that means it's taking up slack space on my HD that I could be putting to more productive uses.
"No really. Trillian offers you an opportunity to support its continued development by subscription"
No, Trillian does charge you money. When they first jumped from 0.7-something to 1.0 and charged for it, they more or less stopped updating the free 0.x branch except for protocol changes and security updates. They're now up to 2.01 and if you don't pay them money you're essentially using the same software they were releasing for free 2 years ago.
MEMSTAT - Displays Windows memory usage STAT ALL - Shows all stats STAT AUDIO - Shows audio stats STAT FPS - Displays your frames per second STAT GAME - Displays game stats STAT HARDWARE - Shows hardware stats STAT NET - Shows network game play stats STAT NONE - Turns off all stats STAT RENDER - Displays rendering statistics
You probably want to use memstat. While in the game, hit the backquote key (often called the tilde key, ~) to bring down the console. Type in the command, hit enter.
I tend to avoid stat all because it just crowds the screen, but stat fps is useful for determining the effects of display settings as well (for performance)
Actually, I think the argument that it's restricting innovation is one of the better ones. I'd like a device that could cache all my DVDs
I have such a device. It's a modded Xbox with a larger hard drive. Attached via the network to my PC, with larger hard drives still. Running Xbox Media Center, I can watch whatever I feel like, when I feel like it. I'm also archiving some of them to DVD-R as DivX for more compact storage.
Keep in mind that the purpose is to test a "method"
The fibonacci test, for example, is not testing fibonacci number generation, it's testing recursion. (Same deal with the Ackerman test) If you were allowed to do it iteratively, you're not testing the right thing.
Also, if you want to submit a replacement that you think will do better, feel free. Just make sure it's doing what the test spec says.
Please, do read the methodology page, it's there for a reason.
Soft mod being a software mod. This is using a special save game. Instructions and tutorials and such can be found at www.xbox-scene.com. (Try the "Tutorials" link up top)
Xbox-scene also has gobs of information if you want to go the whole way with your xbox and get a mod chip.
Other than that, like the other guy said, xbins.org has a whole slew of homebrew games and such, ranging from emulators to actual homebrew games, file utitlies, and the like. You will generally need to go on IRC to download them, since they are built with the official XDK and as such are illegal to distribute. I do highly reccomend XBOMBERBOX if you have 4 controllers and have a few friends that would enjoy a few rounds of bomberman:)
Not for everybody, but I went the modded xbox route. Using a soft mod you can get XBMC on it running divx (or xvid, ogm, whatever) off of the DVDRom, hard disk, or even over the network. No remote control unless you get the DVD remote addon or a wireless controller, but it does work quite well. And it sure beats bringing the PC out from the other room:P
But how generally applicable is this? Obviously we will need to approach near-100% accuracy to make anything useful of it, but it makes me wonder if it's possible to have the machine just work for everybody, or will it need to be trained to your brain before it can be of use?
At the same time, do a search of current bugs and see if it's already in there. If it is, and you can add something worthwhile, add a comment. If it's there and has everything you could say about it, leave it alone and be assured _someone_ will look at it.
Just an FYI, it seems that freecache just does a passthrough on AVI files. I tried doing the freecache thing, but firefox keeps showing up as saving it from the original host.
And besides, I'm _still_ getting over 100k/s (it was 115 when story first posted, now at 105) so we're collectively not doing the greatest job of slashdotting them anyways.
Better than a removable drive would be a "hidden" hard drive partition. Get Windows (or whatever) installed onto partition 1, and have partition 2 non-visible from windows. Then boot into either Dos or a live cd (I highly recommend Bart's PE Builder for a live win xp cd) and take a ghost image of partition 1 and save the image on the hidden partition 2. Then as backup maybe make a CD set or something.
You shouldn't be worrying about what goes on while they're there, but after the rental ends just pop over with the live cd, restore the disk image, and it's fresh for the next rental.
not even the article writer can RTFA before it makes it to slashdot...
I only wish I knew more about the legality of using them.
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The software for most of these arcade games is not free. If you do not have a legal license for a game you are playing under MAME, you are infringing on someone's copyright.
I think that about sums it up right there. Yes, most MAME use is illegal. No, they probably won't call you on it for the older games. They might call you on it for some of the newer ones that are still making money in the arcades, but they'd need to catch you first, which is pretty hard if you just do it at home.
Also, look up JWPCE, a japanese word processor that runs on windows CE (as well as other versions of windows) - it's quite easy to use and has many good features - a searchable japanese/english dictionary and kanji information tool being the most useful.
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The usual would be three options, pick two. But since this is the internet, you'll probably have to settle for just one of the three... Sorry.
and just so peoples are aware, it looks like the release notes between both of the pages you linked are the same.
Not if you start the torrent again.
Which is where it breaks down. When I download something (a music album, for the sake of argument) it goes into my temp downloads folder. As does whatever I download from Firefox, Mirc, Trillian, or Shareaza. When I have received it and want to do something with it, I move it to a "better" spot on my hard drive. In this case it's My Music\.... Once here, Azureus no longer knows about it, and if I want to resume the torrent I need to start from scratch, or mangle the torrent import to grab it off of the correct location, which still doesn't work all the time if I need to rename any of the files.
If I had a pissload of free HD space, then I could copy it out of the temp folder instead of moving it (which for most popular things I do, but only to get to a healthy ratio) but I don't usually have the floating free space to do that.
The HD space problem with the WW cache is similar, but if I could set a constant space for it I could mitigate that. The cache could be smart and keep around the more popular bits of files, freeing me from needing the whole torrent available.
Of course, it won't be done properly.
I'm not a fan since that means it's taking up slack space on my HD that I could be putting to more productive uses.
No, Trillian does charge you money. When they first jumped from 0.7-something to 1.0 and charged for it, they more or less stopped updating the free 0.x branch except for protocol changes and security updates. They're now up to 2.01 and if you don't pay them money you're essentially using the same software they were releasing for free 2 years ago.
Which is why I've switched to Gaim.
From Planet Unreal,
You probably want to use memstat. While in the game, hit the backquote key (often called the tilde key, ~) to bring down the console. Type in the command, hit enter.
I tend to avoid stat all because it just crowds the screen, but stat fps is useful for determining the effects of display settings as well (for performance)
Agreed - I found the NPR "Star Wars" radio drama to be quite entertaining. and at 6 1/2 hours, a lot more fulfilling than I remember the film
That sounds like a good argument at banning IRC to me :P
He makes a great case for...
That looks like a parallel structure to me...
I have such a device. It's a modded Xbox with a larger hard drive. Attached via the network to my PC, with larger hard drives still. Running Xbox Media Center, I can watch whatever I feel like, when I feel like it. I'm also archiving some of them to DVD-R as DivX for more compact storage.
The fibonacci test, for example, is not testing fibonacci number generation, it's testing recursion. (Same deal with the Ackerman test) If you were allowed to do it iteratively, you're not testing the right thing.
Also, if you want to submit a replacement that you think will do better, feel free. Just make sure it's doing what the test spec says.
Please, do read the methodology page, it's there for a reason.
Xbox-scene also has gobs of information if you want to go the whole way with your xbox and get a mod chip.
Other than that, like the other guy said, xbins.org has a whole slew of homebrew games and such, ranging from emulators to actual homebrew games, file utitlies, and the like. You will generally need to go on IRC to download them, since they are built with the official XDK and as such are illegal to distribute. I do highly reccomend XBOMBERBOX if you have 4 controllers and have a few friends that would enjoy a few rounds of bomberman :)
Not for everybody, but I went the modded xbox route. Using a soft mod you can get XBMC on it running divx (or xvid, ogm, whatever) off of the DVDRom, hard disk, or even over the network. No remote control unless you get the DVD remote addon or a wireless controller, but it does work quite well. And it sure beats bringing the PC out from the other room :P
But how generally applicable is this? Obviously we will need to approach near-100% accuracy to make anything useful of it, but it makes me wonder if it's possible to have the machine just work for everybody, or will it need to be trained to your brain before it can be of use?
maybe?
At the same time, do a search of current bugs and see if it's already in there. If it is, and you can add something worthwhile, add a comment. If it's there and has everything you could say about it, leave it alone and be assured _someone_ will look at it.
And besides, I'm _still_ getting over 100k/s (it was 115 when story first posted, now at 105) so we're collectively not doing the greatest job of slashdotting them anyways.
There's quite a few actually. Warcraft3, Civ, Age of Empires to name a few. Ask around at your local comic book / game shop, I'm sure there's others.
You shouldn't be worrying about what goes on while they're there, but after the rental ends just pop over with the live cd, restore the disk image, and it's fresh for the next rental.
and those of us that work are waiting until this november and doing an Extended Weekend :P
I only wish I knew more about the legality of using them.
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The software for most of these arcade games is not free. If you do not have a legal license for a game you are playing under MAME, you are infringing on someone's copyright.
I think that about sums it up right there. Yes, most MAME use is illegal. No, they probably won't call you on it for the older games. They might call you on it for some of the newer ones that are still making money in the arcades, but they'd need to catch you first, which is pretty hard if you just do it at home.
Also, look up JWPCE, a japanese word processor that runs on windows CE (as well as other versions of windows) - it's quite easy to use and has many good features - a searchable japanese/english dictionary and kanji information tool being the most useful.
Doh, that's right. I should've caught that the first time :P
Half an hour since posting and still not a comment. Even the trolls and the first-posters don't care :P